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Up for sale the "Allied Commander Atlantic" James Jungius Hand Signed TLS dated 1976.
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Vice Admiral
Sir James George Jungius KBE DL
(born 15 November 1923) is a former Royal Navy
officer who became Deputy Supreme Allied Commander
Atlantic. Educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Jungius
was commissioned a sub-lieutenant on 1 February 1943. He served in
the Royal Navy during World War II and took part on commando
operations in the Adriatic Sea. During the Italian Campaign, he took
part in the capture of Termoli in Operation
Devon, for which he was mentioned in dispatches. He was promoted to
lieutenant-commander on 1 December 1951, and to commander on 31 December 1955.
He took command of the destroyer HMS Wizard
during the Suez Crisis in 1956. Promoted to captain on 30
June 1963,[7] he was appointed Assistant Naval attaché
in Washington D. C. in 1968 and Captain of the aircraft
carrier HMS Albion in 1971. Jungius was promoted to rear admiral
on 7 July 1972 and appointed Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Operational
Requirements) the same year He was promoted to vice-admiral on 8 September
1974, and was appointed Deputy Supreme Allied Commander
Atlantic from January 1975. He was knighted as a Knight Commander of
the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1977 New Year Honours, and was appointed
the Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic's
Representative in Europe in 1978. He retired on 21 April 1980. In retirement he became Deputy
Lieutenant of Cornwall.
